guillotine

1. To use a guillotine (on someone or something).

   (also, figuratively, transitive)To execute (someone) with a guillotine.

   Many counterrevolutionaries were guillotined during the French Revolution.

   guillotinieren

   казни́ть на гильоти́неkaznítʹ na gilʹotíne, гильотини́роватьgilʹotinírovatʹ

   kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine

2. (transitive)To cut or trim (a body part, a stack of paper, etc.) with a guillotine.

3. (UK, informal, transitive)To end discussion (about a parliamentary bill or part of one) by invoking a guillotine procedure.

4. (US, informal, transitive)To end (a legislative debate) by invoking cloture.

5. (figuratively, transitive)To end anything abruptly.

1. Who invented the guillotine?

   ruКто изобрёл гильотину?

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2. What's a guillotine?

   ruЧто такое гильотина?

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3. He was condemned to the guillotine.

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4. Is the guillotine still used by certain countries?

   ruГильотина ещё используется в каких-нибудь странах?

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5. This window is a guillotine, I'm telling you.

   Це вікно — це гільйотина, я тобі кажу.

   ruЭто окно — это гильотина, я тебе говорю.

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